Her publications include ''Don't Push the River (It Flows by Itself)'', a first-person account of Stevens' investigations of
Gestalt therapy. It shows the author during a period of several months in association with
Fritz Perls at Perls' Gestalt Institute of Canada at
Lake Cowichan,
Vancouver Island, in 1969. Barry Stevens describes both Gestalt therapy theory and practice and her relationship with Fritz Perls in a sensitive way, thus creating a vivid image of Perls in the last months of his life. In addition she explored
Zen Buddhism, the philosophy of
Jiddu Krishnamurti, and
Indian American religious practices in an effort "to deepen and expand personal experience and work through difficulties." Alternating with episodes from her earlier days, it became a "best-seller" in the circles of humanistic psychology. Her earliest published work was "Hide-away Island" (1934) a loosely autobiographical novel about a woman on the far end of Long Island. She met Nakata Yoshimatsu, a former valet of
Jack London, in Hawai'i in the 1930s, and helped him to write down his recollections. She also wrote an article about Nakata that was published posthumously in 2000. ==Bibliography==